Making Memes that Matter
How can we use our skills to give back to people who give so much to help homeless animals?
This is the essential question that we worked to answer for this project. The classes solution? To make pictures with photo shop that could inform the public about our local animal shelters, the services they provide, and how we can all help to get animals into loving homes while also preventing more pets from finding themselves stray or relinquished.
The requirements were simple: get our message across by using pictures of animals from the two shelters and funny or heartwarming slogans to help convey themes of adoption, spaying/neutering, microchipping, and other positive measures the community can take. Naturally, the final products needed to be aesthetically pleasing, easy to read, and contain a guilt-free message for viewers. The result? About 90 memes for both The Humane Society and Animal Control to use throughout the year for their Facebook pages, billboards, pamphlets, educational material, and other means of social media.
A particular reason for the success of this project was the opportunity to work with a partner who complimented and pushed my own strategies. I was paired with a creative Katiana who works very hard and was the ideal collaborative partner. If I could do something differently, I would have better organized the project demands so that Katiana could look for the pictures while I created the slogans (or vise versa) instead of having both of us working on the memes together. We would have gotten our work done more quickly if we had divided and conquered. Regardless, the project was a good learning experience as it provided insight of how I work with others, how time can be better managed, and how we, as a class, can make a real difference in our community.
This is the essential question that we worked to answer for this project. The classes solution? To make pictures with photo shop that could inform the public about our local animal shelters, the services they provide, and how we can all help to get animals into loving homes while also preventing more pets from finding themselves stray or relinquished.
The requirements were simple: get our message across by using pictures of animals from the two shelters and funny or heartwarming slogans to help convey themes of adoption, spaying/neutering, microchipping, and other positive measures the community can take. Naturally, the final products needed to be aesthetically pleasing, easy to read, and contain a guilt-free message for viewers. The result? About 90 memes for both The Humane Society and Animal Control to use throughout the year for their Facebook pages, billboards, pamphlets, educational material, and other means of social media.
A particular reason for the success of this project was the opportunity to work with a partner who complimented and pushed my own strategies. I was paired with a creative Katiana who works very hard and was the ideal collaborative partner. If I could do something differently, I would have better organized the project demands so that Katiana could look for the pictures while I created the slogans (or vise versa) instead of having both of us working on the memes together. We would have gotten our work done more quickly if we had divided and conquered. Regardless, the project was a good learning experience as it provided insight of how I work with others, how time can be better managed, and how we, as a class, can make a real difference in our community.